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Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
by Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas, Frank Furstenberg
University of California Press
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Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her children be better off if she had waited to have them and had married their father first?
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